2 Timothy 2:6

It behooves the toiling farmer first to partake of the fruits.

Matthew 9:37-38

Then He says to His disciples, The harvest truly is great and the laborers are few;

Matthew 20:1

For the kingdom of the heavens is like unto a landlord man, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.

Matthew 21:33-41

Hear ye another parable. A man was a landlord, who planted a vineyard, and placed a hedge around it, and dug a wine-trough in it, and built a tower, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went away.

Luke 10:2

And He said to them, The harvest is indeed great, but the laborers are few: therefore pray you the Lord of the harvest, that He may send forth laborers into His harvest.

John 4:35-38

Do you not say, That it is yet four months, and the harvest cometh? Behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes and see the fields, because they are white unto the harvest

1 Corinthians 3:6-9

I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.

1 Corinthians 9:7-11

Whoever goes to war at his own charges? who plants a vineyard, and does not eat the fruit of it? or who shepherdizes a flock, and does not eat of the milk of the flock?

1 Corinthians 9:23

But I do all these things for the sake of the gospel, that I may be its fellow-partaker.

Hebrews 10:36

For you have need of patience, in order that, having done the will of God, you will inherit the promise.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.

That laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits

Bible References

Husbandman

Matthew 9:37
Then He says to His disciples, The harvest truly is great and the laborers are few;
Matthew 20:1
For the kingdom of the heavens is like unto a landlord man, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.
Matthew 21:33
Hear ye another parable. A man was a landlord, who planted a vineyard, and placed a hedge around it, and dug a wine-trough in it, and built a tower, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went away.
Luke 10:2
And He said to them, The harvest is indeed great, but the laborers are few: therefore pray you the Lord of the harvest, that He may send forth laborers into His harvest.
John 4:35
Do you not say, That it is yet four months, and the harvest cometh? Behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes and see the fields, because they are white unto the harvest
1 Corinthians 3:6
I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
1 Corinthians 9:7
Whoever goes to war at his own charges? who plants a vineyard, and does not eat the fruit of it? or who shepherdizes a flock, and does not eat of the milk of the flock?

That laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits

1 Corinthians 9:23
But I do all these things for the sake of the gospel, that I may be its fellow-partaker.
Hebrews 10:36
For you have need of patience, in order that, having done the will of God, you will inherit the promise.